groom's cake… or…. pie

Ever since the first time Todd took me to Greenville and we dined at Soby’s, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. The White Chocolate Banana Cream Pie. It’s to die for. It’s gooey, it’s chocolatey, it’s banana-y, and it has beautiful swirls of white chocolate on top.

Soby’s is a fine Southern restaurant that is conveniently located across the street from the Westin Poinsett hotel, where our reception is located. Soby’s also serves our favorite pie, the White Chocolate Banana Cream Pie. When I asked Todd what kind of groom’s cake he’d like to have we threw around a few ideas; Jimmy Buffett parrot head cake, chocolate and strawberry cake, Gamecocks cake, law books, or scales of justice. These were all fine, but none of these really captured the devine dessert that we were looking for. Our wedding cake will be white cake and white butter cream icing, my favorite kind of wedding cake, and there will also be a surprise layer of red velvet cake. We wanted something fluffy and Southern for the groom’s cake, so we chose Soby’s White Chocolate Banana Cream Pie. It’s honestly one of the things I’m looking most forward to about the wedding.

We’re serving miniature pies that will be 3″ a piece. Practically bite-size! We decided to display them in these giant brass scales of justice that I got from my mom’s best friend. We’ll have two very large pies in the scales (one heavier than the other) and 200 miniature pies arranged on the groom’s cake table.

I advise coming to the wedding just for the pie. Unless you don’t like bananas.

Ruston: My Home Town

I’ve just returned from a wonderful trip to Dallas and Ruston! The whole five days was great and I was so happy to see so many friends and family and to get to eat such great food! 🙂

I picked up my dress on Thursday after Todd’s mom and I got to Dallas. I had my hair done on Friday morning in Dallas, then we were all off to Benton, Louisiana to meet my photographer, Kelly Moore, for the bridal portraits. It is always such an adventure with Kelly and I couldn’t be happier about my photographer choice. We were in true Louisiana areas for the pictures and I was only slightly scared that my dress was getting dirty! I can’t wait to see her work.

The next day, we had the shower at the Ropp Center on the Louisiana Tech campus. The shower was hosted by three ladies that I grew up knowing and loving and these women are dear friends of my parents. So many of my college and childhood friends were there and it was great to catch up. Two of my friends brought their babies and it was so much fun to see them for the first time! Here are some pictures of the really fun shower!

Rachel, Hudson, and me

PC and me

Jennifer, me, PC, Lisa, and Maisie

like sisters– Jennifer, me, and Kate

me, Lisa, Blair, and Maisie

After the shower, my friends, family, and I went to Cajun Cafe for some boiled crawfish and then I knew my trip home was complete!

My favorite college professors and their daughter gave me this adorable little sign that said, “Ruston: My home town.” While it wasn’t something on my registry, it was by far my favorite gift. I love that place!

thank you!

A big thank you to Abby at Style Me Pretty for featuring my inspiration board that I created for Catherine’s Arkansas barn wedding on her blog. Style Me Pretty is my favorite wedding blog and always features so many great vendors, ideas from brides, and beautiful real weddings. I’m so excited to be on her blog today!

the chandelier of my dreams

I told my friend, “LeCorn” that I was looking for an all-white, modern chandelier and hadn’t been able to find one. She told me to check out Wisteria.com and she was right! I found the perfect chandelier for our bedroom. We have really classic and traditional features of our house, but the pendant fixtures in our kitchen are really modern and I really want to modernize our master bedroom. We picked a really traditional bed, but chose really modern fabric. I moved my blue and brown living room accents up to the bedroom and will have a blue and brown bedroom with white accents.

Isn’t this chandelier perfect? It’s also perfectly expensive.

Todd and I have basically created “dream lists” of items for the house that we’d love to have some day and we’ll just have to add this one to it. It’s definitely going on my “Must Find at Market” list for July 2008 in hopes of finding it at wholesale price.

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